OBERON / PROSPERO REPETTO WAS BUILT IN 1869 AND
LAUNCHED IN MAY OF THAT YEAR. SHE WAS A IRON VESSEL OF 1,194 TONS. BUILT BY
INGLIS AT GLASGOW FOR SHAW & MARTON. SHE WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT AS A STEAM CLIPPER
BUT WAS CONVERTED TOO A SAILING VESSEL AS HER ENGINE WAS UNDER RATED AND
FINANCIALLY A DISASTER TO RUN, WITH HER OWNERS RETURNING THE VESSEL TO HER
BUILDERS FOR MODIFICATION.

SHE WAS THEN USED ON THE AUSTRALIAN RUN. IN 1881 HER
OWNERS WERE LISTED AS SHAW & BUSBY. IN 1883 HER MASTER, CAPTAIN ENGLAND WAS LOST
OVERBOARD AND DROWN DURING WILD SEAS. SHE WAS SOLD TO AN ITALIAN COMPANY AND
RE-NAMED 'PROSPERO REPETTO' SHE WAS STILL IN SERVICE WITH THEM UP TO 1900.
SHE DISAPPERED FROM THE REGISTRY ABOUT 1905 AND ASSUMED TO HAVE BEEN
SCRAPPED.

SHE HAD DONE A VOYAGE FROM LONDON TO PORT CHALMERS IN 1873. WHICH I ASSUME
WAS THE SHAW SAVILL CHARTER. SHE CARRIED SOME GUN POWDER ONBOARD, SO
ANCHORED IN THE QUARANTINE GROUND .

OBERON

OBERON BUILT IN 1893 BY RUSSEL & CO PORT
GLASGOW SHE WAS A FOUR MASTED BARQUENTINE OF 1,119 TONS. HER FIRST
OWNERS WERE JAMES FAIRLIE OF GLASGOW. LATER OWNERS WERE PEDER JACOBSEN OF
PORSGRUNN NORWAY. IN 1916 SHE WAS REGISTERED IN ODENSE TO DANISH OWNERS.IN 1899
SHE WENT ASHORE BUT THE VESSEL WAS LATER SALVAGED. SHE WAS SCRAPPED/BECAME A
COAL HULK IN 1924 . THIS IS NOT THE SHAW SAVILL CHARTERD ONE. I INCLUDE IT FOR
REFERENCE ONLY

OBERON

OBERON WAS BUILT BY AUSTIN AND HUNTER AT
SUNDERLAND IN 1878 SHE WAS A NORWEGIAN VESSEL OF 755 TONS. HER ENGINES WERE
FITTED BY BOLINDERS OF STOCKHOLM

HER LAST OWNERS WERE SORENSEN THYGO OF STOCKHOLM

ON 26TH DECEMBER 1920 ON A VOYAGE FROM LONDON TO GOTEBORG SHE WAS WRECKED BUT
THEN REFLOATED AND TOWED TO FREDRIKSHAVN BUT WAS LEAKING BADLY THAT SHE WAS BEACHED
OFF HANSTHOLM